Longing (1981)

Original title

蹦蹦一串心

Directed by

Chen Kun-hou

Genre

drama film

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 36m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A private detective in Taipei is hired to follow a man's mistress. He accidentally loses a woman's pet bird and ends up owing her money. As he tries to pay her back, he gets drawn into her search for a mysterious admirer and worries about her naive trust.

lightheartedromanticcomedicquirkynostalgicbittersweetslow-pacedearnest

What happens

，1981年台灣電影，由陳坤厚執導，侯孝賢編劇，鍾鎮濤和沈雁主演。 私家偵探余士龍(鍾鎮濤)照舊在執行受託跟監綽號-咖哩雞的高立基(高凌風)的外遇對象(熊海靈)風流情事。這天也一樣，有時也會有同行(黃仲崑)來搗亂，而他也清楚，咖哩雞也會一如既往地沒有斬獲；但余士龍遇到了剛上台北來謀職的孟小馨(沈雁)，卻不小心將孟小馨的八哥鳥給弄飛了，孟小馨於是生氣地向余士龍索討了5000元的賠償金，無奈余士龍拿不出錢來，只好分期付款。幾次有意無意的碰面後，余士龍總算還到只剩700元。此時，在餐廳駐唱的孟小馨反而請余士龍幫忙徵信一位神秘聽眾-杜奇(劉延方)，作為抵銷尾款。 來到相約的公園，余士龍發現這位名叫的帥氣男子杜奇不太正派，杜奇為展現他假裝的誠實個性搏取孟小馨的信任，甚至不惜帶孟小馨到賭場來觀光、到療養院服侍，乃至於上賓館裝清高……，余士龍雖然與孟小馨每每見面總要鬥嘴，余士龍倒也因為孟小馨的單純而感到痛惜。對人古道熱腸的余士龍也實在無法放下孟小馨不管，但他能拯救已經被愛情迷暈了的孟小馨嗎？ (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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